Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lytta

Lytta (lit"tȧ) , noun

[Latin, a worm said to grow under the tongue of dogs, and to cause canine madness, from Greek ly`tta, ly`ssa, lit., madness.]

(Anatomy) A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.